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Amazon Kindle customers are now entitled to credit for some of their past e-book purchases, as a result of settlements between major publishers and a coalition of Attorneys General, the ecommerce retailer said Saturday. Hachette, HarperCollins, and S...

The U.S. Government Printing Office announced federally published e-books will now be available for purchase through Apple. Customers can buy and read titles from Ponzimonium: How Scam Artists are Ripping Off America, to the 2013 federal budget on th...

Self-publishing has become a popular method for authors to get their work to the public, though it can still be difficult to publicize and distribute your work. Developing a readership is easier for authors than it was a decade ago if they've gained ...

Both summer reading and serious scholarly research could get a lot easier with the Digital Public Library of America. The visionary project has raised $1 million to help make library materials freely available online to anyone. The open-access digita...

Remember when film projectors and PowerPoint presentations were considered cutting-edge in the classroom? As modern technology advances, so does innovation in schools across all levels. In fact, about 91% of teachers in the U.S. have access to comput...

As reading habits shift from printed to digital ink, public libraries are struggling to raise awareness of their digital offerings. The introduction of tablets and dedicated e-book readers has changed the way we read. Now, you’re just as likely to fi...

The iPad may be the shiny new toy, but the issue of kids tossing aside old forms of media has been around for some time. Before mobile devices, the home computer represented the conflict between traditional and interactive media. And while parents th...

So, you're finally dusting off that 300-page manuscript and getting into the self-publishing game. It can be an exciting and rewarding venture, but before you get started, it's a good idea to learn as much as you can about what's available to you, th...

U.S. consumers with an e-reader or tablet are more likely to read and buy books than those without an e-book compatible tech device, a new infographic suggests. An infographic released by Infographic Labs cites a Pew study finding that those who read...

In the wake of the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and book publishers over ebook pricing, Amazon is in a renewed position of strength. Emboldened by Wednesday's news, the online retailer has already made plans to lower ebook prices. In a...

Harry Potter fan site Pottermore sold more than $1.59 million worth of ebooks in the first three days after the books became available, Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne said on a Radio Litopia show, “The Naked Book.” The sales were “considerably highe...

Apple is scheduled to host an education-related event Jan. 19 -- shrouded with a veil of mystery, as always. A new report from Ars Technica says the company is about to unveil a set of tools to create interactive ebooks. Previous rumors said Apple wi...

OverDrive released its lists of the most-downloaded e-books from libraries in December 2011. These lists look pretty different from the current New York Times e-book bestseller lists. Here’s why, plus a few interesting tidbits. All of the lists are h...

Fans of Apple's iBooks app now have more content to choose from, thanks to the infusion of Random House titles to the iOS digital storefront. Random House announced Monday that as of March 1, 2011, it would adopt an agency model for e-book sales. Ran...

Amazon's e-reader, the Kindle, will soon be available in AT&T's retail stores, the company has announced. The price for the 6-inch, 3G version of the device will cost $189, which is the same as the price on Amazon. Unsurprisingly, the Wi-Fi-only vers...

Amazon revealed details about its forthcoming over-the-air software update for owners of the latest-generation Kindle and Kindle 3G devices Monday. Device owners will be especially happy to learn that the page numbers in tens of thousands of e-books ...

Earlier in the week, ScrollMotion released a new Sesame Street e-book simultaneously for the iTunes App Store and for the Google Chrome Web Store. Over the last year, nearly a dozen Sesame Street e-books have been released for the iPhone and iPad, bu...

As part of his mission to develop an alternative to the traditional book publishing model, acclaimed author and marketer Seth Godin has announced the first title to appear under his new Amazon imprint, called The Domino Project. The book is titled Po...

Barnes & Noble has released a new software update for its Nook Color device. The update, version 1.1.0, is deemed by B&N as "minor" but adds better Wi-Fi connectivity, improved performance, and the ability to pinch and zoom in the web browser. The ne...

It’s official: electronic Kindle books are now outselling paperbacks on Amazon, marking a major milestone in the publishing industry. The news was revealed in Amazon’s fourth quarter earnings report, and comes just six months after the company announ...

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Philip Ruppel is president of McGraw-Hill Professional, a leading global publisher of print and electronic content and services for the business, scientific, technical, and medical communities. Without a doubt, the e-book is practically the biggest t...

E-reading service Kobo announced Friday that it is updating its iPhone and iPad apps to include Instapaper integration. Customers will be able to read articles they've clipped from the web within the same e-reading app that they use to read their e-b...

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As anyone who has seen this video of a 2-year-old using an iPad knows, Apple's famed touchscreen device has proven an intuitive, interactive learning tool for children. Yet creating apps for children -- whether that's musical games, learning exercise...

Google Editions, the Internet giant's book store business promised for last summer, is set to launch before the end of 2010, the Wall Street Journal reports. Google Editions will have a significantly different sales model from most competitors, such ...

Copia, the subsidiary of DMC Worldwide that caused a stir this summer when it announced its plans to bring a $99 color e-reader to market, has now made its social reading and book shopping platform available to the public. The company has also shelve...

The New York Times announced Thursday morning that it will begin publishing bestseller lists for e-book fiction and nonfiction in early 2011. The Times's bestseller lists, established in 1935, are arguably the definitive metric for success in the boo...

While print book sales continue to decline, e-book sales are up 192.9% this year to date, according to figures gathered from 14 publishers by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). E-books now make up 9% of all trade sales in the U.S.; last ye...

Amazon issued a call today for "compelling ideas expressed at their natural length" for its e-book store. Specifically, per Amazon's guidelines, that means non-fiction works in the 10,000-30,000-word (30 to 90-page) range that deliver a well-research...

On the ninth floor of a nondescript building in New York City is a very unique company that is poised to change the future of publishing. This company has more than 11,000 apps in the App Store, deals with some of the biggest players in publishing an...

Following its debut at Target stores this weekend, Apple's iPad also became available for purchase from Amazon's online electronics department on Monday -- the first online retailer to carry the device besides Apple itself. It may seem odd that Amazo...

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